The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

Our task is to learn to see clearly what is happening in each moment, rather than be lost in our reactions and judgments.

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

Our own life has to be our message.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

All experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind. Speak or act with a corrupted mind, and suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

The challenge in meditation is not to eliminate thinking but to understand the nature of thought itself.

When you practice zazen you should not try to attain anything. You should just sit in the complete calmness of your mind and not rely on anything.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Short moments, many times. That is the essence of meditation practice.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.